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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Leading Republicans united Tuesday in an extraordinary denunciation of Donald Trump's attacks on a federal judge, with House Speaker Paul Ryan calling them the "textbook definition of a racist comment" though he stood by his endorsement of the presumptive presidential nominee....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Spoiler Alert:...
IMAGE: NS photo/Karen Callaway, Catholic New WorldBy Colleen DulleWASHINGTON (CNS) -- When Deacon JosephJensen entered Our Lady ofGood Counsel Passionist Seminary in Warrenton, Missouri, in the late1950s, he realized he was the only student in his class who had read the Bible.Deacon Jensen, now a lecturer inbiblical studies at Georgetown University in Washington, credited his Seventh-day Adventistgrandfather with exposing him to Scripture. Largely though, he said, "Igrew up with the idea that Catholics didn't read the Bible."Such a common misconception could bechanging.A new State of the Bible Survey by theAmerican Bible Society found that 77 percent of Catholics want to read theBible more often. Although the percentage has fluctuated in recent years, itreflects an 8 percentage point increase since January 2013, just before PopeFrancis' election."There's come, I think, some veryencouraging data on Catholics" thanks to the so-called "Franciseffect," Jason Malec, U.S. mission director...
DENVER (AP) -- Rangers protecting the lions, elephants and leopards of Rwanda's Akagera National Park often patrol on foot, and venture only with difficulty into its swamps to keep an eye on rare birds....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Savannah Guthrie of the "Today" show put a public face Tuesday on what NBC says is a "small handful" of employees who will not travel to Rio de Janeiro this summer for Olympics coverage because of concern over the Zika virus....
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Astronaut James Halsell Jr. seemed the very definition of someone with the right stuff. An Air Force Academy graduate and decorated test pilot, he commanded or piloted five space shuttle missions. NASA even turned to him for leadership as it was picking up the pieces after the Columbia disaster in 2003....
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The most famous man in the world sat down in a busy airport terminal with a little girl he'd never met, and the pair played pat-a-cake for 10 minutes....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Stanford University "did everything within its power" to ensure justice in the case of a former swimmer sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, saying it moved swiftly to investigate and punish the student but that more needs to be done at the school and elsewhere to end sexual violence....
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- President Bashar Assad vowed Tuesday his troops would "liberate" every inch of Syria, just like they recaptured the ancient town of Palmyra from the Islamic State group, in a speech that reflected his renewed confidence as the military pressed on toward Raqqa, the extremists' self-styled capital....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Already the presumptive Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton pressed for victory in California and five other states Tuesday, while Bernie Sanders looked to play spoiler and cast doubts about Clinton's historic achievement....
